ScannerDude244
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Also Pinnacles uses mix mode
Los Padres NF not using 103.5 on outputs?
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Wonderful, I look forward to seeing it!
I'm wondering if their law enforcement dispatch is still being done by Sequoia-Kings and if so, if they are encrypting the running of plates, wants and warrants stuff. I'm not sure about Pinnacles fire traffic either, is Monterey CDF handling that?
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Yup still Sequoia dispatch, but use the call sign Pinnacles on their net. No encryption on their end still open. Hollister fire handles the east side of the park they took over San Benito county fire from Calfire. On the west side of the park Calfire B Engine or Soledad/Calfire "contract" handles the west side of the park. During the summer they will the NPS will have a engine out there but very rare they do.
Great Information on Fire Scope. Now just need CalFires load for 2022.
Thanks. Your last sentence is a bit screwed up but I think I understand what you are saying about summer. I would imagine they would "detail" an engine in from another NPS unit, likely a Type 6 as driving to a lot of their fires is not a likely scenario. That park is split in two geographically and a drive from park HQ around to the west side is a bit time consuming.
Yosemite dispatches law enforcement for Lassen Volcanic NP, while fire at that park is dispatched by the Susanville fed/Cal Fire ECC. Sequoia-Kings doing the dispatching for Pinnacles is a natural, given the location of each park. I understand that the Ash Mountain dispatch center no longer ID's as "735 Dispatch" like they did for decades and now use "Sequoia" as their identifier. "Sequoia" used to be the ID of the Sequoia National Forest Dispatcher center in Porterville, but they now dispatch for most of the BLM's Central California District, the Tule Indian Reservation and the National Forest, so they changed their ID to "Porterville." I guess keeping the IDer of "Pinnacles" allows the dispatcher to keep track of the 3 nets they work; SEKI Frontcountry, SEKI Backcountry and Pinnacles. I imagine they have the South Zone dispatch intercom to keep track of also along with Air Guard and National Flight Following as well. National Flight Following is not used at all in many national parks though. I wonder if they scan "Porterville" and "Sierra" as well.
I worked one summer near Lodgepole at Sequoia-Kings Canyon NP's back in 1971, but could not afford to buy crystals for the park. Those old 1969-1970 8 channel Regency scanners only picked up 5 MHz of signal and throwing a 164 MHz crystal in with all the LAPD stuff in the 154-156 MHz's would have been out of range anyway. The receiver could be tuned to a peak frequency and only had 2.5 MHz of reception on each side of it. I would have loved to had a scanner that was federal VHF high capable that summer.
Sorry to stray away from the Los Padres, but the subject of Pinnacles and Sequoia-Kings triggered me!
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For the first time in several years, I did not get the 2021 statewide load. Yes, we need the 2022 load, but I suspect it will be out in April at the earliest.
Funny....Radio Tech, singular and he ONLY works on the repeaters and the new ECC that has relocated to VAFB. So...I'm doing the 217A or the Comm Plan for them.
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